About
The Inquisitr offers a daily mix of great original and syndicated content from across the web, covering a diverse spectrum of topic areas including technology, news, sport, entertainment and offbeat stories.
About The Inquisitr
Founded in May 2008, The Inquisitr has grown from humble beginnings to become a top 7,000 web sites globally (according to Alexa) and one of the worlds most popular blogs (Top 100 according to Technorati.)
The Inquisitr is entirely independent, having been self funded by founder Duncan Riley since its inception, and has been profitable since January 2009. The site continues to grow, delivering between 2.5-3 million page views from May 2009, and with an increase in its writing team in July 2009, aims to be bigger again.
The Inquisitr is a young site compared to most other leading sites, but we believe that our unique mix, driven by our talented writing team means that we will continue to achieve even better results.
If you’re interested in advertising on The Inquisitr, details are available here. If you have any query, or might be interested in investment opportunities, please email duncan at nichenet.com.au.
Our writing team:
Editor: Duncan Riley
Duncan is a pioneer in Australian politics on the internet, creating the first website for a political party branch in Australia in 1995, and founding the first conservative aggregate political site in Australia the same year. In 1999, he designed and ran the Young Australians Against this Republic website, the leading youth website in the 1999 Australian Republican Referendum.
In 2002, he launched The Blog Herald, the first blog dedicated to the news of the then still small blogging world. The site went on to become a Technorati Top 100 blog and covered major milestones in the blogging industry. Duncan sold the site in January 2006.
In 2005, he launched weblog network Weblog Empire, which later that year became the foundation for blogging network b5media. b5media was founded by Duncan along with Darren Rowse and Jeremy Wright in mid 2005 and subsequently raised $8 million in venture capital. In November 2006, Riley left b5media to pursue personal projects.
In May 2007, Duncan started a 12 month stint as a staff writer at TechCrunch, which he left to launch The Inquisitr.
Lead Writer: Kim LaCapria
Kim LaCapria is a longtime internet addict and casual blogger new to the world of problogging.
In January, Kim left her career in beauty and skincare marketing in downtown Manhattan to pursue blogging and internet entrepreneurishness full-time. In addition to her work at the Inquisitr, she does freelance graphic, writing, marketing and assorted web projects for small businesses.
She lives in a suburb of New York City and can be found on Twitter and her naughty personal blog Femme Dangereuse.
twitter.com/klacapria
femmedangereuse.com
Tech/ Opinion writer: Steve Hodson
Folks commonly call me Steven, my wife calls me many names and some are even nice 
and I have been involved with the computer industry in one fashion or another for the better part of 20 years. My first real involvement began when I setup up my first Bulletin Board Service (BBS) using Maximus. That was back when any coding was done with your favorite text editor and lots of coffee.
Between then and now I have studied for my A+ certification, built countless computers, programmed for a living; both as a freelancer and as a hire, and now I find myself sharing my thoughts on the technological world around us.
WinExtra first started out 7 years ago as a set of NNTP newsgroups for the rejects and cast-offs from the old Lockergnome newsgroups. During that time of struggle to keep things afloat I met an incredible number of people many of whom have become close friends. Then about a year ago during some personal finacial difficulties I had to move the newsgroups to a hosted web forum and thankfully many of the newsgroup members made the transition with me and for that I am thankful because without them it wouldn’t have been the same.
It was also at that point that I took blogging seriously and began buckling down – learning as much as could about the whole blogosphere thing. That isn’t to say that I am not still learning – far from it. Everyday is a great learning experience andeven on the days when I don’t feel like doing a damn thing I still find the joy to write.
Some folks may like what I have to say and that is great; other folks may not and think I’m an idiot. Well that’s cool to – we’re all entitled to our opinions but equally so don’t be reluctant to tell me why because who knows maybe I’ll learn something new.
Gadget / Tech Writer: James Allen Johnson
James is a freelance writer and SEO specialist who has spent the last 14 years working in the tech industry. His experiences include retail, business to business and etailer positions.
James is a graduate of Illinois State University where he earned his degree in Communications.
His specialties in writing include technology how-to-guides, health and finance writing and a special love for Sports and Pop Culture articles.
While not writing for the Inquisitr he can be found as the Managing Editor for the mobile channels at Brighthub.com and writing various types of articles for Demand Studios. He also enjoys guest blogging and working on various forms of SEO improvement on sites as a freelancer for hire.
James is a devoted Chicago Cubs and Chicago Bears fans and lives 2 hours outside of Chicago in a small town surrounded by corn and soybeans, an odd place for an early adopter of technologies.
Gaming Writer: Chris Greenhough
Bio to follow.
Sports Writer: Joshua Lodbell
Joshua Lobdell is an internet sports journalist based in Detroit, Michigan, USA. Over the last ten years he has built a strong resume in the online sports journalism world. He first covered the XFL casually for a friend’s website, and then went on to write a few general sports columns for a few Myspace.com blogs.
Ten years ago he was a movie theater manger, with a casual sports interest; today he has earned a business degree and writes about sports full time from his home office. Joshua has been a huge sports fan his whole life and roots for his hometown Detroit teams first, but is hardly a homer. In fact he may be more critical of his teams, than he is of others.
Currently Joshua write three columns for Examiner.com, (links) www.bizofsports.com, www.detroitnascarexaminer.com, and www.nfldraftnow.com. He also writes a Detroit Lions blog from the viewpoint of the long suffering Lions fans at http://myteamrivals.typepad.com/lions/, and is the Director of Content for www.nascarcomplete.com. Recently Joshua was named a Featured Columnist on Bleacherreport.com covering the new UFL. (Link http://bleacherreport.com/united-football-league).
Other than that Joshua is a stay at home dad who enjoys watching sports of all types with his son John Robert, no matter how much it annoys his wife Kathy.
European Correspondent: Dennis Bjørn Petersen
My name is Dennis Bjørn Petersen and I’m a Dane. I grew up 5 km from the German border, so for 15 years all I knew was German TV. I’ve seen The A-Team, The Fall Guy and Remington Steele in German. I was no stranger to English though. Everytime I mowed the lawn, I was allowed to play 30 minutes on my father’s Commodore 64. That changed when I got my own, soon it was upgraded to an Amiga 600. Seven PCs and several laptops later I bought my first Mac last year.
My first social online experiences was in a chat rooms, ICQ and Ultima Online. I moved on to Everquest and Everquest 2, where I ran a major guild. I stopped playing MMORPG three years ago.
I have a weakness for new gadgets and technology. If my wife tells me to buy a new iron or a vacuum cleaner, I return with the most advanced device. I think it’s cool to have an iron, that does everything automatically (even though I don’t use it). I’m usually a first-mover, if something has a “beta” tag, I try it out. That’s why I started my first blog The Beta News in 2006.
I’ve reviewed video games (Xbox360, Wii and PC) on other sites and authored blogs about video games (ie. FIFA-series).
You can follow me on twitter http:/www.twitter.com/dennisbp of FriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com/dennisbp
